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Websites
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NURSING Websites
The Library has 299 websites and
17 results for the descriptor "nursing".
- 1. ACE (Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice)
- Provider:The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing
- Keywords: evidence-based medicine , nursing
- Description: A Center for Excellence on Evidence-Based Practice.
- 2. Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI)
- Provider:Alliance for Nursing Informatics
- Keywords: advocacy , informatics , networking , nursing , standard of care , jobs , continuing education , electronic health record
- Description: The Alliance for Nursing Informatics is a coalition of more than 20 nursing informatics groups in the United States. Paraphrasing some of this organization's stated areas of concern: 'providing a mechanism for transforming care; developing resources, guidelines and standards for nursing informatics practice; education, scope of practice, research, certification, public policy, terminology, best practice guidelines; mentoring, advocacy, networking and career services.' A linked list of member organizations and a page of linked news and events are provided, along with information on the TIGER Initiative, which "...seeks to better prepare practicing nurses and nursing students to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care."
- 3. allnurses.com
- Provider:allnurses.com, Inc.
- Keywords: blog , networking , nursing , social networking , news
- Description: This is a Web resource for nurses and nursing students. Free registration required for complete access. Includes discussion forums for nursing specialties, news, free articles from state nursing organizations, and links to some international nursing forums.
- 4. American Nurses Association (ANA)
- Provider:American Nurses Association
- Keywords: nursing , workforce , jobs , continuing education , organizations, societies , partial open access
- Description: The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a full-service professional organization representing 2.9 million U.S. registered nurses (RNs) via 54 constituent member associations. ANA advances the nursing profession by "fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public." Includes career resources, continuing education resources and links. Note: Membership sign-up is required for access to many of the resources here.
- 5. American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- Provider:ANCC, a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association
- Keywords: nursing , continuing education
- Description: From the website: ANCC's internationally renowned credentialing programs certify nurses in specialty practice areas, recognize healthcare organizations for nursing excellence through the Magnet Recognition Program®, and accredit providers of continuing nursing education. In addition, ANCC offers an array of informational and educational services and products to support its core credentialing programs... Review and resource manuals, review seminars, and web-based learning all support individuals who are on the path to certification.
- 6. American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
- Provider:American Nursing Informatics Association
- Keywords: informatics , networking , nursing , jobs
- Description: ANIA's Mission is to provide networking, education and information resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field of informatics. The website provides links to educational institutions offering programs in nursing or health informatics, provides a job bank for the specialty, and posts its conference information.
- 7. Assisted Living Directory: Facilities Information & Senior Care
- Provider:Assisted-Living-Directory.com ©2009
- Keywords: aging , Alzheimer , consumer health , geriatrics , nursing , family , general medical reference
- Description: This directory covers assisted living facilities in all 50 states. Search by state or ZIP code. Contact information, photographs and links to the facilities' websites are provided. The compilers of this directory have screened out questionable entries, based on news items and user feedback, but first-hand investigation is of utmost importance in this context.
- 8. Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)
- Provider:CNIA (Canadian Nursing Informatics Association)
- Keywords: Canada , education , informatics , journal , nursing
- Description: "The Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) exists to help nurses across Canada to learn, share, research, and create informatics-related projects and experiences that can help to boost the competencies, theory, and practice of informatics on a national level." We start you at the Resources section, which links to nursing and allied health informatics sites, primarily in Canada and the U.S., and to educational institutions internationally offering online courses in informatics. Full text articles from the Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics are also available here.
- 9. Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
- Provider:Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
- Keywords: audiology , conference , courseware , dentistry , emergency medicine , infectious disease , nursing , pharmacology , psychiatry , psychology , social work , student , surgery , video , neurology , continuing education , CME , bioengineering , physician , podcasts , dermatology , ophthalmology , allergy , cardiology
- Description: The Cleveland Clinic, certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, provides this website with a wide selection of (text and video) online CME units in approximately 40 medical specialties. Nursing, Dentistry and Health Care Administration are included along with medical specialties from Allergy/Immunology to Women's Health. A series of fee-based, live CME conferences is also offered.
- 10. Essential Nursing Resources
- Provider:Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN)
- Keywords: nursing , links
- Description: A extremely thorough and comprehensive listing of all categories of information resources for nurses and nursing education, compiled for the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN); edited by Susan Kaplan Jacobs and Ysabel Bertolucci; copyright 2007. Now in its 24th edition.
- 11. Influenza: Evidence-based Information Portal
- Provider:EBSCO Publishing
- Keywords: clinical , evidence-based practice , nursing , point-of-care , free , physician , patient education , H1N1
- Description: Within several of its databases, EBSCO is providing free resources on H1N1 Influenza. From this portal one can link to categories of clinical information in DynaMed, nursing information in Nursing Reference Center, and patient information inside PERC.
- 12. Joanna Briggs Institute
- Provider:Joanna Briggs Institute
- Keywords: allied health , evidence-based practice , clinical practice guidelines , nursing , point-of-care , systematic reviews , partial open access
- Description: Joanna Briggs Institute is an international, not-for-profit research and development organization specializing in Evidence-Based resources for nursing, midwifery, medicine, and allied health professionals. JBI offers resources designed for service providers, health professionals and consumers by connecting the best available international evidence to the point of care. An initiative and operational unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide.
- 13. MedPix Medical Image Database
- Provider:Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
- Keywords: allied health , education , graduate medical education , health sciences , informatics , medical imaging , nursing , open access , radiology , student , CME , images
- Description: This is a free medical imaging database from the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. Nearly 50,000 captioned images, more than 11,000 peer-reviewed case files approved for teaching and CME credit, and over 6,600 disease topics are provided here. Users who register have personal space to save images and create their own quizzes. A valuable resource for radiology and other allied health staff and trainees, physicians and medical students, nurses and graduate nursing students.
- 14. Medscape Nurses
- Provider:Medscape via WebMD Health Professional Network
- Keywords: clinical , literature , nursing , point-of-care , news , links , CME
- Description: Medscape Nurses provides nursing professionals with up-to-date, comprehensive clinical information on patient care. With free registration, access to databases and full-text content from nursing journals is provided. Exercises for CME credit are also included.
- 15. Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
- Provider:National Library of Medicine
- Keywords: evidence-based practice , NLM , nursing , continuing education
- Description: A website that organizes a wealth of links to useful nursing and allied health sites, from continuing education to disease information and evidence-based practice resources.
- 16. NursingCenter
- Provider:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
- Keywords: drugs , nursing , jobs , news , continuing education
- Description: This site is a multi-faceted resource for nurses which includes CME activities, job search resources, news, drug update alerts and discussion forums. Although registration is not required, optional free registration allows the user to create an individualized profile for tracking your CME activities and filtering information to your own specialty or interests. Please note: many free full-text articles are included, but many references do not provide free full text if accessed directly from NursingCenter. Please, always check HAM-TMC Library's A-Z journal list before paying for an article at NursingCenter; the Library subscribes to a full collection of LWW journals on your behalf.
- 17. Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative
- Provider:TIGER Initiative
- Keywords: care , clinical , decision support , evidence-based practice , informatics , networking , nursing , technology , wiki , workforce , standard of care , electronic health record
- Description: From the website: "While the TIGER Initiative started out as a grass-roots effort to engage with all stakeholders that are committed to a common “vision” of ideal EHR [Electronic Health Record]-enabled nursing practice, today more than 120 diverse organizations have joined the effort to collaborate on nine important topics. Each of the nine teams has developed a wiki that explains their goals, activities, and progress..." Some of the organizations involved in the TIGER initiative include the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, the American Nurses Association, the AACN, and the Association of Nurse Executives. Readers are free to join the effort or simply keep up with developments by reading the teams' WIKIs.
